Friendship Quotes - Page 8

The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.

Robert J. Havighurst

We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A true friend is the best possession.

Anonymous

Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!

Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.

Spencer M. Free

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

John Hay

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.

Arthur H. Stainback

My life seems to have become suddenly hollow and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot even put the shadow that has fallen on me into words. At least into written words. I would give a great deal for a friend's voice.

John Addington Symonds

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.

Epicurus

Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough For I am sure of you.

Plant a seed of friendship reap a bouquet of happiness.

Lois L. Kaufman

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

Duchess Prazlin

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste coveting one another's desserts hiding shampoo locking each other out of our rooms inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant loving laughing defending and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee.

Anne Bradstreet

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife the way to stay close is to do things together and share.

Jimmy and I were always partners.

Rosalynn Carter

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

If you want an accounting of your worth count your friends.

There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.

Today a man discovered gold and fame Another flew the stormy seas Another set an unarmed world aflame One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.

Helen Barker Parker

There is no physician like a true friend.

Anonymous

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.

True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest.

Lady Henry Somerset

Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.

Aristotle

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission of our thoughts the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

Each friend represents a world in us a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Cicero

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Plautus

Though Love be deeper Friendship is more wide.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.

Anonymous

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bull pen.

Bob Lemon

There is no wilderness like a life without friends friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.

Baltasar Gracián

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

A cheer then for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

No medicine is more valuable none more efficacious none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.

Saint Alfred of Rievaulx

My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.

Emily Dickinson

If I don't have friends then I ain't nothing.

Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

Carlos P. Romulo

One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.

William E. Holler

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Henry David Thoreau

We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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